Bruce D. Marshall
Biography
Bruce D. Marshall has served as Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
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Augustine and the Mystery of the Church
Theology
“In this lucid and penetrating study of Augustine’s ecclesiology, James Lee offers what students and teachers of Augustine have wanted for a very long time: an accessible synthesis of Augustine’s mature teaching on the Church. Augustine’s thinking about the Church is deeply influential, but spread across the whole body of his writings, and a convincing account of it has to sift and draw together an enormous amount of material in an illuminating way. That is just what Professor Lee has done, and all who care about Augustine, and about the Church, are in his debt.”
Biblical Interpretation and Doctrine in Early Christianity
Theology
“Brian Daley brings to the Church Fathers an unmatched combination of sympathy, clarity, intellectual rigor, and contemporary relevance. These virtues shine forth on every page of this extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging collection of essays, focused on one of Daley’s most important contributions: demonstrating the deep tie between early Christian biblical interpretation and traditional Christian doctrine.”
Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament
Theology
“Modern biblical criticism has frequently sought to drive a wedge between historic Christian doctrine, especially Catholic doctrine, and the right reading of the Bible. Here Anderson does more than show that rigorous critical exegesis and Christian doctrine can get along together, important as this is. His splendid achievement is to show, in one case after another, that a nuanced grasp of Christian doctrine actually enables us to read the Bible better than we otherwise could.”
Theology
“For over a thousand years the dogmatic task--the believing mind's quest to understand how the Christian faith hangs together in all of its complexity--has been the summit of the Christian intellectual life. Few now attempt it, but Paul McGlasson offers here the first volume of a full dogmatics, clearly Reformed in outlook, yet informed by the faith of the wider church. May his effort rouse other Christians to join him in the task.”
Theology
“" --Mark Tranvik, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN "The first volume of a full dogmatics . . . informed by the faith of the wider church. . . .”
Theology
“This profound and beautiful book is the finest yet from the hand of its remarkable author. Khaled Anatolios sees the suffering of the cross not as a problem to be solved (or explained away), but as the full and free enactment of Jesus’s perfect sorrow over the sins of the world—at once the eternal Son’s glorification of the Father in our flesh and the opening up of divine life itself to sinners. This is a deeply learned theological work at home with the whole Christian tradition, but it is also much more than that. By finding anew the cross at the heart of the mystery of salvation, this theologian makes the joy of the gospel leap off the page.”
Theology
“Hütter's pages are suffused with a sense of gratitude and discovery, and with a deep confidence in Thomas, who can teach even us about God and ourselves, if we would let him. In the exceptional range of these essays, Hütter shows once again that there seems to be no question on which Thomas fails to shed needed light - from human emotions to politics to the nature of the university, as well as the most basic and difficult questions of theology.”
Theology
“"For over twenty years a remarkable group of Finnish scholars has been offering a new interpretation of Luther's theology. Here for the first time in English these theologians give us not only a presentation of their challenging approach to Luther research, but a splendid introduction to Luther's theology as a whole. Beginners and experts alike will find much to ponder in the Luther who speaks from these pages.”
Engaging the Doctrine of Creation
Theology
“With this third volume in his Engaging the Doctrine series, Levering offers the promise of a systematic theology with a breadth and scale not seen since before Vatican II. His treatment of the doctrine of creation provides not only a theologically acute engagement with scientific questions but also a perceptive treatment of the connections between creation, sin, and atonement. May there be more volumes to come!”
Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Theology
“This is surely the most substantive theological treatise on the Holy Spirit to appear since Yves Congar's great work on the subject over a generation ago. Like Cardinal Congar, Matthew Levering knows that 'the river of life' flows in both the West and the East, and more than Congar, he brings the immense riches of the Western Catholic tradition's teaching on the person and work of the Spirit to bear on the manifold problems of the present.”
Theology
“Today the Western Church has to proclaim the gospel in a culture that says it has outgrown religion, Christianity in particular. In this new and perilous situation, we have no more honest and reliable guide than Fr. Barron. He shows us how to remember and teach the truths about God and ourselves that our culture once knew but is now trying to forget--and trying to tempt the Church also to forget.”
Christian Living
“This is the finest piece of theological work yet to emerge from the Messianic Jewish movement.”
Jesus and the God of Classical Theism
Theology
“In the name of a biblically authentic understanding of Christ and the Trinity, modern theology has often cheerfully discarded the classical Christian commitment to God’s transcendence—to the ways God is not like us—without counting the cost. Written from an ecumenically alert Reformed point of view, this book will interest and stimulate theologians who share its author’s conviction that a truly biblical Christology cannot do without a vigorous affirmation of God’s eternity, immutability, and impassibility. Even more, one hopes, it will interest those who do not.”
Theology
“Whether there is any truth in the old saw that ‘Wesley was not a systematic theologian,’ Thomas McCall and Jason Vickers vividly show that Wesleyans certainly can be—that Wesleyan convictions and insights bear much fruit when cast into the form of a comprehensive, conceptually stringent account of God and all things in relation to God. Among its virtues, this welcome and needed book will greatly help those of us outside the Wesleyan tradition to appreciate its special genius.”
Theology
“Among his readers, it has long been a truism that Barth was motivated by a desire to free theology from the epistemic straitjacket in which Kant had left it. Others have talked about Barth’s relationship to Kant, but no one has confronted the question as directly, as clearly, and as convincingly as Robert Hand does here. This book is needed reading for anyone who wants to understand how Barth’s theology developed and why he ended up where he did.”
Theology
“It would be hard to imagine a more winsome and helpful introduction to the Christian doctrine of Scripture than this. In an area that has been a minefield of controversy, Brad East writes with clarity yet without polemic, with ecumenical sympathy yet without failing to take a clear position on all the important and contested issues. Whatever your convictions about the Bible and how it should be read, you will benefit from this book.”
Christian Living
“In this beautifully accessible book Carter McCain succeeds where professional theologians (myself included) so often fail. He offers a brief but penetrating explanation of Christian belief about the Trinity. But he does more: he charts a clear path for finding our salvation—our life—in the ‘three-person God’ of Christian faith, instead of letting ourselves be swept away by the torrents of this passing world.”
“It is hard to find adequate words of praise for Fr. Thomas Esposito’s letters to the living and the dead, to saints and sinners, to characters real and imagined, even to an animal and a city. Their theological richness and spiritual perception brings the Catholic faith to bear on the problems we all face today in an utterly winning way, and with astonishing clarity. Fr. Thomas is a scholar and a theologian who also promises to be among the finest spiritual writers of his generation.”
Theology
“Robert Jenson’s thinking about the Trinity has been an exceedingly potent force in Christian theology for more than a generation, not least for the novel roles he assigns to the Holy Spirit in the Trinity. These two essays present with particular clarity and in all their raw originality the ideas that would later serve as the basis for Jenson’s influential Systematic Theology. Whether one agrees with him or not—in fact especially if one does not—these essays are a uniquely stimulating provocation to theological reflection about the most basic matters of Christian faith.”
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